DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Clarke County
[Data based on a sample. For information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, and definitions, see text]
| Subject | Number | Percent | Subject | Number | Percent | |
| SCHOOL ENROLLMENT | NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH | |||||
| Population 3 years and over | Total poplulation | 101,489 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 44,372 | 100.0 | Native | 92,980 | 91.6 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 1,589 | 3.6 | Born in United States | 91,921 | 90.6 | |
| Kindergarten | 1,093 | 2.5 | State of residence | 58,184 | 57.3 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 8,008 | 18.0 | Different state | 33,737 | 33.2 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 3,987 | 9.0 | Born outside United States | 1,059 | 1.0 | |
| College or graduate school | 29,695 | 66.9 | Foreign born | 8,509 | 8.4 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 5,980 | 5.9 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 1,795 | 1.8 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 51,845 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 6,714 | 6.6 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 3,703 | 7.1 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 6,125 | 11.8 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 11,205 | 21.6 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 8,509 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 8,174 | 15.8 | Europe | 822 | 9.7 | |
| Associate degree | 1,992 | 3.8 | Asia | 2,462 | 28.9 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 10,860 | 20.9 | Africa | 568 | 6.7 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 9,786 | 18.9 | Oceania | 106 | 1.2 | |
| Latin America | 4,261 | 50.1 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 81.0 | (X) | Northern America | 290 | 3.4 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 39.8 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 96,051 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 86,102 | 100.0 | English only | 84,683 | 88.2 | |
| Never married | 41,429 | 48.1 | Language other than English | 11,368 | 11.8 | |
| Now married, except separated | 32,574 | 37.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 5,494 | 5.7 | |
| Separated | 1,622 | 1.9 | Spanish | 6,105 | 6.4 | |
| Widowed | 3,876 | 4.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 3,788 | 3.9 | |
| Female | 3,172 | 3.7 | Other Indo-European languages | 2,462 | 2.6 | |
| Divorced | 6,601 | 7.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 564 | 0.6 | |
| Female | 3,902 | 4.5 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 2,227 | 2.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 985 | 1.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 101,489 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 1,588 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 93,273 | 91.9 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 925 | 58.2 | Arab | 423 | 0.4 | |
| Czech¹ | 345 | 0.3 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 202 | 0.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 82,872 | 100.0 | Dutch | 857 | 0.8 | |
| Civilian veterans | 6,473 | 7.8 | English | 10,600 | 10.4 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 2,314 | 2.3 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 451 | 0.4 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 9,479 | 9.3 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 27,206 | 100.0 | Greek | 301 | 0.3 | |
| With a disability | 2,107 | 7.7 | Hungarian | 258 | 0.3 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 59,590 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 9,064 | 8.9 | |
| With a disability | 9,696 | 16.3 | Italian | 2,450 | 2.4 | |
| Percent employed | 56.5 | (X) | Lithuanian | 162 | 0.2 | |
| No disability | 49,894 | 83.7 | Norwegian | 748 | 0.7 | |
| Percent employed | 73.2 | (X) | Polish | 1,600 | 1.6 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 7,629 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 154 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 3,355 | 44.0 | Russian | 596 | 0.6 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 2,801 | 2.8 | ||||
| Scottish | 2,747 | 2.7 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 52 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 96,051 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 1,414 | 1.4 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 32,553 | 33.9 | Swedish | 701 | 0.7 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 59,068 | 61.5 | Swiss | 189 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 20,277 | 21.1 | Ukrainian | 145 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 38,791 | 40.4 | United States or American | 6,572 | 6.5 | |
| Same state | 26,647 | 27.7 | Welsh | 703 | 0.7 | |
| Different state | 12,144 | 12.6 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 322 | 0.3 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 4,430 | 4.6 | Other ancestries | 37,623 | 37.1 | |
| Date: July 7, 2006 | ||||||
| -Represent zero or rounds to zero. (X) Not applicable. | ||||||
| ¹ The data represent a combination of two ancestries shown separately in Summary File 3. Czech includes Czechoslovakian. French includes Alsatian. French Canadian includes Acadian/Cajun. Irish includes Celtic. | ||||||
| Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Census 2000. | ||||||
- Page last reviewed December 31, 2008
- Page last updated December 31, 2008
- Content source: CDC Emergency Risk Communication Branch (ERCB), Division of Emergency Operations (DEO), Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response (OPHPR)
